Meet the Lemba-Cohens

In the 1980s [Professor Tudor] Parfitt lived with a Southern African clan called the
Lemba, who claimed to be a lost tribe of Israel. Colleagues laughed at
him for backing the claim; in 1999, a genetic marker specific to
descendents of Judaism's Temple priests (cohens) was found to appear as
frequently among the Lemba's priestly cast as in Jews named Cohen. The
Lemba — and Parfitt — made global news. --Time

Parfitt now thinks he might have tracked down the Ark of the Covenant -- more info on that at the link. Via Mirabilis